What is a Flat Panel TV?

Flat panel TV is another term for Flat Screen TV. Actually all the terms mean very much the same thing. The term Flat Screen TV, Home Cinema, and Flat Panel TV mean pretty much the same.  more

Flat panel TVs are display screens for watching TV and movies that are significantly thinner than the cathode ray tube (CRT) televisions that are being replaced in living rooms across America. A flat panel TV is more compact than the standard CRT television, measuring only a few inches in thickness and lacking the convex screen. Besides eliminating bulk, the flat panel TV offers excellent picture quality and compatibility with home theatre systems, HDTV, and digital television. There are two basic types of flat panel TVs -- liquid crystal display (LCD) and plasma. LCD flat panel TVs employ millions of individual crystals that respond to electric charges and create light and color, which passes through the glass and displays the picture in millions of little dots, or pixels. LCD flat panel TVs consume less energy for operation than plasma screen flat panel TVs, but the display can become skewed, especially at sharp angles on larger screens. The plasma screen flat panel TV operates ...  more